David Vines

Professor of Economics and Fellow, Balliol College, University of Oxford

David Vines is professor of economics and fellow of Balliol College at the University of Oxford, and joint editor of a number of books on global economic governance. He and Peter Temin are coauthors of The Leaderless Economy: Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It.

This is a response to a critique by Paul Davidson of our 2013 book Keynes: Useful Economics for the World Economy and related work, where we describe, amongst other things, how the Swan diagram can be used to show how economies can use policy tools to achieve internal and external balance.